This paper contributes to the ongoing methodological debate on context-free versus in-context presentation of experimental tasks. We report an experiment using the paradigm of a bribery experiment. In one condition, the task is presented in a typical bribery context, the other one uses abstract...

We review the existing laboratory experimental studies on corruption that have generated results with clear policy implications. We discuss experimental findings on the role that both monetary incentives and non-monetary motivations may play in corruption-decision making, and, hence, in the...